{"id":1055,"date":"2007-06-11T22:16:22","date_gmt":"2007-06-12T02:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catchingfireflies.com\/blog\/?p=1055"},"modified":"2007-06-11T22:16:22","modified_gmt":"2007-06-12T02:16:22","slug":"downtown_berkle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/downtown_berkle\/","title":{"rendered":"downtown berkley&#8230; then and now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/catchingfireflies.typepad.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/2007\/06\/11\/berkley01_1920s_blog.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-full\" title=\"Berkley01_1920s_blog\" alt=\"Berkley01_1920s_blog\" src=\"http:\/\/catchingfireflies.typepad.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/2007\/06\/11\/berkley01_1920s_blog.jpg\" border=\"0\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The city of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.berkleymich.org\/web\/index.asp\">Berkley, MI turns 75 this year<\/a> and this prompted a local gentlemen to do some research on our great little town.<\/p>\n<p>He came across this photo from the 1920&#8217;s (<em>before Berkley was even named a city<\/em>) and was kind enough to share it with us.<a href=\"http:\/\/catchingfireflies.typepad.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/2007\/06\/11\/berkley_now.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-full\" title=\"Berkley_now\" alt=\"Berkley_now\" src=\"http:\/\/catchingfireflies.typepad.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/2007\/06\/11\/berkley_now.jpg\" border=\"0\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>&#8230;look familiar? (yeah, that&#8217;s us in the turquoise and purple)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/catchingfireflies.typepad.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/2007\/06\/11\/berkley01_1920sclose_up.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-full\" title=\"Berkley01_1920sclose_up\" alt=\"Berkley01_1920sclose_up\" src=\"http:\/\/catchingfireflies.typepad.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/2007\/06\/11\/berkley01_1920sclose_up.jpg\" border=\"0\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;m so glad our store is located in such an old building.&nbsp; It makes the perfect backdrop for our quirky collections.&nbsp; I think that&#8217;s what drew me towards our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shopcatchingfireflies.com\/letstalk.htm\">Rochester location<\/a> too, which is in an old train depot. <\/p>\n<div id=\"flaresmith\" class=\"feedflare\"><script src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~s\/http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/catchingfireflies\/TyNo?i=http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/downtown_berkle\/\" type=\"text\/javascript\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div><div class=\"linkwithin_hook\" id=\"http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/downtown_berkle\/\"><\/div><script>\n<!-- \/\/LinkWithinCodeStart\nvar linkwithin_site_id = 944859;\nvar linkwithin_div_class = \"linkwithin_hook\";\n\/\/LinkWithinCodeEnd -->\n<\/script>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/widget.js\"><\/script>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/pixel.png\" alt=\"Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...\" style=\"border: 0\" \/><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The city of Berkley, MI turns 75 this year and this prompted a local gentlemen to do some research on our great little town. He came across this photo from the 1920&#8217;s (before Berkley was even named a city) and was kind enough to share it with us. &#8230;look familiar? (yeah, that&#8217;s us in the turquoise and purple) I&#8217;m so glad our store is located in such an old building.&nbsp; It makes the perfect backdrop for our quirky collections.&nbsp; I think that&#8217;s what drew me towards our Rochester location too, which is in an old train depot.<\/p>\n<script>\n<!-- \/\/LinkWithinCodeStart\nvar linkwithin_site_id = 944859;\nvar linkwithin_div_class = \"linkwithin_hook\";\n\/\/LinkWithinCodeEnd -->\n<\/script>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/widget.js\"><\/script>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/pixel.png\" alt=\"Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...\" style=\"border: 0\" \/><\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[1243,134,25],"class_list":["post-1055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-town","tag-berkley","tag-catching-fireflies","tag-michigan"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.catchingfirefliesgifts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}